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Microsoft Pwns Apple? True Story

When Microsoft can successfully make fun of you, you have failed as a company.

Apple is the world leader in producing overpriced crap and this time Microsoft went right for their weak spot.

This was a comment on that article:

lketchum said:

We build custom computers. A lot of them. Workstations, notebooks in three sizes with numerous configuration options, gaming systems, media centric systems, compute clusters for rendering and CAD/engineering firms and servers. Each is sold as a turn-key service – where down to the pixel, the machines are personalized and set up for immediate use within designed and we assess, equally well managed business and personal networks. Down to hand dressing the edges on labels and the alignment of every fastener, we pay attention to quality.

We depend entirely upon delivering and sustaining the very best possible computing experience – so we totally get the lifestyle angle Apple executes on and I mention all the above simply to establish a base from which to offer my observations.

Apple does not produce a better product than is possible for less money on the PC platform running Windows. Apple does not support their computers as well as the marketing suggests.

The notion that Apple Macintosh computers are akin to high end cars is ridiculous. Their internal components are widely available and most often not as good as what many system builders use every day. The chassis may be considered to be better than some PC’s but the chassis are delivered at a very high price relative to what is done with PC’s.

Apple’s advertising, though clever and often times funny, is not accurate.

Apple’s OS X is not technically superior to Windows Vista, or Windows 7. It is not nearly as secure – though and depending upon how it is used, it may be safer to use for certain types of online users.

We have repaired quite a few Mac computers for family members from among our customers. We’ve done so when Apple would not unless a great deal of money had been spent. We’ve taken all but two models down to bare metal and fixed them. They appear to be fragile, they tend to run hot and in many ways, they are very poorly designed. In the context of thermal loss, I regard their designs as being naive at best.

I do respect Apple for what they try to do. I respect anyone who designs and builds anything – it is very hard to do and one has to “own” every issue. I do not appreciate the way Apple presents itself in the market. It isn’t humble and it does not seem to me to focus on the user as the user really is – but rather how Apple seems to want the user to be.

The PC embraces all people – regardless of their interests and or technical ability. The PC is open and has served as an enabler for millions of people – even tiny business owners like myself – who in the context of the larger market matters not at all – but to those we serve, we matter a great deal each and every day. Apple does not seem to understand that at all – nor do they seem to respect that at all. Apple seems that it will never be able to serve the business market well, because it has no understanding of what it is to sit down and listen to another person’s dreams and then commit to helping make them a reality.

Finally, it is dang sad when those that profess to be so “different” and “unique” exercise that uniqueness by acting like everyone else and insisting that all others shoulued as well. The PC, as it has always been, is about the individual – individual freedom and right of choice as attended by personal responsibility for the outcome (good or bad).

Also read this: Arrogance Is Not A Virtue